The Entirety of Twitter is Headed for the Library of Congress

In a move that’s clearly intended to out-postmodern MoMA’s acquisition of the @ symbol, the Library of Congress has announced this morning that it has acquired the entire Twitter archive. “Every public tweet, ever, since Twitter’s inception in March 2006, will be archived digitally at the Library of Congress. That’s a LOT of tweets, by the way: Twitter processes more than 50 million tweets every day, with the total numbering in the billions,” read a post on L.O.C.’s blog. “I’m certain we’ll learn things that none of us now can even possibly conceive.” This is probably true! Of course, sometimes even information is more obfuscating than enlightening. Anyway, of course there is already a meta-discussion about the Library’s acquisition happening on Twitter right now, the entirely of which will be preserved for posterity, forever. Go, join the chat, sacrifice 140 characters of your choice to the gods of History.